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Thursday 4 June 2020
We stand to denounce racism in all its forms.
We, the undersigned from the cultural sector of the North East, declare that silence is not ok and silence is seen as complicity. Racism has no place in a just and humane society.
Whilst we cannot undo pain and neglect, we are calling on all of us in the arts, cultural, heritage sectors; professional and voluntary to work together to address racism and its deep roots. We must listen, have conversations and most importantly act, we know we need to do better. Everyone is part of the solution - artists, staff, trustees, partners, promoters, audiences and communities.
We want to tackle this together in sharing better understanding and practices. We stand united to bring about change in our thinking and actions as a collective of organisations and individuals.
In the weeks and months to come we will collectively act to build on this statement with concrete steps and actions to demonstrate our commitment to bringing about real change. We ask you to stand with us.
We contacted as many organisations and individuals we could in a short space of time.
If you would like to join us in these future conversations please contact any of the points of contacts listed below:
We stand to denounce racism in all its forms.
We, the undersigned from the cultural sector of the North East, declare that silence is not ok and silence is seen as complicity. Racism has no place in a just and humane society.
Whilst we cannot undo pain and neglect, we are calling on all of us in the arts, cultural, heritage sectors; professional and voluntary to work together to address racism and its deep roots. We must listen, have conversations and most importantly act, we know we need to do better. Everyone is part of the solution - artists, staff, trustees, partners, promoters, audiences and communities.
We want to tackle this together in sharing better understanding and practices. We stand united to bring about change in our thinking and actions as a collective of organisations and individuals.
In the weeks and months to come we will collectively act to build on this statement with concrete steps and actions to demonstrate our commitment to bringing about real change. We ask you to stand with us.
We contacted as many organisations and individuals we could in a short space of time.
If you would like to join us in these future conversations please contact any of the points of contacts listed below:
Alphabetti Theatre
Signee: Ali Pritchard, Artistic/Executive Director
Contact: Ali Pritchard, [email protected]
Ampersand Inventions
Signees: Jonpaul Kirvan FRSA / Peter Marchal, Directors
Contact: [email protected]
Anna Robinson
Sceneographer
Contact: [email protected]
ARC Stockton
Signee: Annabel Turpin
Contact: [email protected]
Arts & Heritage
Stephanie Allen, Executive Director
Contact: [email protected]
Assembly Rooms Theatre Durham
Signee: Kate Barton
Contact: [email protected]
balletLORENT
Signee: Liv Lorent
Contact: [email protected]
Blowin’ A Hooley Theatre
Contact: [email protected]
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Signee: Sarah Munro, Director
Contact: Caroline Murphy, [email protected]
Ben Dickenson
Contact: [email protected]
Executive Producer, City of Dreams / Associate Literary Producer Alphabetti
Beverley Prevatt Goldstein
Signee: Beverley Prevatt Goldstein
Contact: [email protected]
Brash
Signee: Bethan Kitchen, Artistic Director
Contact: [email protected]
Bridge+Tunnel Productions
Signee: Tina Gharavi, Creative Director
Contact: [email protected]
Butcher’s Dog Poetry Magazine
Dr. Jo Clement, Managing Editor
Camisado Club
Signee: Caroline Liversidge, Camisado Club
Contact: [email protected]
Centre for Life, Newcastle
Signee: Linda Conlon
Contact: Louise Richardson, [email protected]
Cobalt Studios
Contact: [email protected]
Company of Others
Signee: Nadia Iftkhar, Artistic Director & CEO
Contact: Nadia Iftkhar, [email protected]
Coracle Productions
Signee: Matt Jamie, Artistic Director Contact: [email protected]
Curious Arts
Signee: Phil Douglas, Director
Contact: Ellie Puckering, [email protected]
Curious Monkey
Signee: Amy Golding
Contact: [email protected]
Creative Seed
Contact: Sandy and Garner Harris, Founding Directors
D6 Culture in Transit
Clymene Christoforou, Director
Dance City
Signee: Phil Douglas
Contact: Phil Douglas, [email protected]
Degna Stone
Poet and editor
Disconsortia
Signee: Lisette Auton, Co-founding Member
Contact: [email protected]
Eliot Smith Dance (ESD)
Signee: Eliot Smith, Artistic Director
Contact: [email protected]
Elizabeth Kane
Artist
Contact: [email protected]
Ednie Wilson
Gateshead
Gateway Studio CIO
Signee: Martin Hylton, Artistic Director/CEO
Contact: Martin Hylton, [email protected]
GemArts
Signee: Vikas Kumar MBE, Director
Contact: Vikas Kumar, [email protected]
Gobscure
Signee: Sean Burn
Contact: [email protected]
Gosforth Civic Theatre
Contact: [email protected]
Harambee Pasadia CIC
Signee: Hannabiell Sanders
Contact: Hannabiell Sanders, [email protected]
Kitchen Zoo
Signee: Bob Nicholson
Contact: [email protected]
Ladies of Midnight Blue
Signee: Yilis Suriel
Contact: Yilis Suriel, [email protected]
The Letter Room
Signees: Meghan Doyle and Stan Hodgson, Co-Artistic Directors
Contact: [email protected]
Little Cog
Signee: Vici Wreford-Sinnott, Artistic Director
Contact: [email protected]
Live Theatre
Signee: Jim Beirne, Chief Executive
Contact: [email protected]
Luxi
Signee: Caroline Pearce
Contact: [email protected]
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA)
Signee: Laura Sillars, MIMA Director and Dean of MIMA School of Art & Design
Contact: [email protected]
Melody Sproates
Artist/Performer
Mortal Fools
Signee: Kiz Crosbie, Artistic Director/CEO
Contact: [email protected]
Mslexia
Debbie Taylor, Editorial Director
Contact: [email protected]
The NewBridge Project
Signee: Rebecca Huggan, Director
Contact: [email protected]
New Writing North
Claire Malcolm, Chief Executive
Contact: Claire Malcolm, [email protected]
Newcastles of the World
Signee: David Faulkner
Contact: [email protected]
Newcastle City Council Arts Team
Signee: Cllr Ged Bell (Cabinet Member for Culture)
Contact: Jim Mawdsley, Arts and Culture Senior Advisor, [email protected]
Northern Print
Signee: Anna Wilkinson, Director
Contact: [email protected]
Newcastle Theatre Royal
Signee: Philip Bernays, Chief Executive
Newcastle University
Signee: Professor Julie Sanders, Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Contact: [email protected]
North East Culture Partnership
Signee: Matthew Jaratt
Contact: [email protected]
Northern Roots
Signee: Adam Collerton, Director
Contact: [email protected]
Northern Stage
Signee: Kate Denby, Executive Director
Contact: Mark Calvert, [email protected]
OGRE
Contact: Steven Walker, Creative Director
Open Clasp
Signees: Joint Chief Executives Catrina McHugh MBE / Ellie Turner
Contacts: [email protected], [email protected]
Orbis
Signees: Jonpaul Kirvan FRSA, Paul Stone, Chris Yeats
Origin Moko Jumbies
Signee: Alan Vaughan
Contact: [email protected]
Prometheus Foundation CIC
Contact: Dot Owston
Sage Gateshead
Signee: Abigail Pogson, Director
Contact: Wendy Smith, [email protected]
Sangini
Signee: Padma Rao
Seven Stories
Signee: John Coburn
Contact: Amanda Beckham, [email protected]
Side By Side Arts CIC
Signee: Stuart Angus, Director
Contact: [email protected]
Skimstone Arts
Signee: Claire Webster-Saaramets, Director
Contact: Claire Webster-Saaramets, [email protected]
Slugtown
Signees: Max Lee and Matt Antoniak, Co-directors
Summer Streets Festival
Signee: Ross Millard
Contact: [email protected]
Streetwise Young People’s Project
Signee: Mandy Coppin (Taylor)
Sunderland Culture
Signee: Graeme Thompson
Contact: [email protected]
Sunderland Music Hub
Signee: Lizzie Nixon
Contact: [email protected]
Susan Ashley
AHRC Researcher
Contact: [email protected]
Tees Valley Arts
Signee: James Beighton, Executive Director
Contact: [email protected]
Hullabaloo Theatre
Signees: Miranda Thain, Chief Executive & Artistic Producer
Contact : [email protected]
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Signee: Iain Watson, Director
Contact: Bill Griffiths, [email protected]
Tyne and Wear Cultural Freelancers
Signee: Leila d’Aronville
Contact: Leila d’Aronville, [email protected]
Twisterella Festival
Signees: Andy Carr and Henry Carden
Contact: [email protected]
Unfolding Theatre
Signees: Michael Barrass, Alex Elliott, Garry Lydon, Annie Rigby and Luca Rutherford
Contact: [email protected]
VAMOS!
Signee: Nikolas Barrera
Contact: [email protected]
Voices of Virtue Gospel Choir
Signees: Mathapelo Imarhiagbe, Chinyere Igun, Glen Smiley
Waka Waka Africa North East
Signee: David Fualkner
Contact: [email protected]
We Make Culture CIC
Signee: Laura Brewis, Project Director
Contact: [email protected]
Workplace and Workplace Foundation
Signee: Miles Thurlow
Contact: [email protected]
Yvette Ja Hawkins
Visual Artist
Contact: [email protected]
Added 16th June 2020:
The Common Room
Signee: Liz Mayes
Contact: [email protected]
Cumberland Arms
Signee: Jo Hodson
Contact: Jo Hodson, [email protected]
DrumDin
Signee: Carol Alevroyianni
Contact: [email protected]
Jack Drum Arts CIC
Signee: Helen Ward, Managing Director
Contact: [email protected]
Middlesbrough Council Cultural buildings
Middlesbrough Town Hall, Middlesbrough Theatre, Middlesbrough Museums
Signee: Mieka Smiles, Executive Member for Culture, Middlesbrough Council.
Contact: [email protected]
NewcastleGateshead Initiative
Signee: Shelley Johnson
Contact: [email protected]
Northern Alchemy Brewery
Signee: Andrew AItchison
Contact: [email protected]
The Old Coal Yard
Signee: Carl Kennedy
Contact: [email protected]
On Board Arts street theatre company
Signee: Nik Alevroyiannis, Artistic Director
Contact: [email protected]
Paco Rivera, Musician
Contact: [email protected]
SALTo Arts Productions
Signee: Richard Broderick
Contact: [email protected]
Added 23rd June 2020
Artist Union England
Signee: Theresa Easton
Contact: [email protected]
Bensham Grove
Signee: Shirley Brown, Chair
Contact: Vikas Kumar, Vice Chair, [email protected]
Circus Central
Sarah Carrie, Operations Director
Contact: [email protected]
Citizen Songwriters CIC
Signee: Sam Slatcher and Alex Summerson, Directors
Contact: [email protected]
Converge at Northumbria
Signee: Ally Hunter Byron – Coordinator
Contact: [email protected]
The Culture Durham Partnership
Signed by Tony Harrington, chair
Contact – [email protected]
The Cultural Spring
Signee: Emma Horsman
[email protected]
Dingy Butterflies CIC
Signee: Ben Jones, Founder & Director
Contact: [email protected]
East Durham Creates
Signees: Jess Hunt & Malcolm Fallow
Contact: [email protected]
Empty Shop CIC
Signatories : Carlo Viglianisi and Nick Malyan
Contact: [email protected]
Explore Lifelong Learning
Signee: Dorothy Stainsby, Co-chair, Joseph Cowen Lifelong Learning Centre CIO
Contact: [email protected]
Gateshead Council
Signee: Councillor Angela Douglas, Cabinet Member for Culture, Sport and Leisure
Contact: [email protected]
The Invisible Labs
Signee: Bhavani Esapathi, Founding Director
Contact: [email protected]
Keep Our NHS Public North East (KONPNE)
Signee: Jude Letham
[email protected]
Katie Mitchell
Arts and Health Network, North East
Laura Fish
Writer and lecturer at Northumbria University
[email protected]
Louise Evan Wong
Individual
[email protected]
Luca Rutherford
writer + performer
[email protected]
Megan Brown
Dance Artist
[email protected]
Music Partnership North Newcastle
Signee: Georgina Biddle, Senior Specialist Music Service
Contact: [email protected]
Network Artists North East
Signee: Jo Liddle
Contact: [email protected]
Sue Ward
Researcher
Contact: [email protected]
Pippa Kyle
[email protected]
North East Labour History Society
Signee: David Connolly
Contact: [email protected]
LGBT and fed North East
Signee: Phil Hayden
Contact: [email protected]
Sanjee Ratnatunga
Ideas for Change Consulting
Contact: [email protected]
Sensory Spaces, Newcastle
[email protected]
Seventeen Nineteen
Signee: Lily Daniels, Participation and Engagement Officer
Contact: [email protected]
Show Racism the Red Card
Contact name: Justine King, Educational Coordinator
Email: [email protected]
The Poetry Book Society
Signee: Sophie O’Neill
Contact: [email protected]
Sunderland Culture
Signee: Helen Connify
[email protected]
Tin Arts
Signee: Martin Wilson, Executive Director
Contact: [email protected]
VARC
Signee: Helen Pailing
Contact: [email protected]
Well Newcastle Gateshead
Signee: Mark Mulqueen, Programme Director
Contact: [email protected]
Added 30th June 2020:
Event International
Signee: Frank Wilson
Contact: [email protected]
Greenfield Arts
Signee: Katy Milne
Contact: [email protected]
Holly Argent
Artist/ Researcher
[email protected]
Kusoma African Book Club
Signee: Pauline Hughes (Plummer)
Contact: [email protected]
North East of England African Community Association
Signee: Abdul-Aziz Kouamé
Contact: [email protected]
Northern Heartlands
Signee: Jill Cole
Contact: [email protected]
Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
Signee: Nick Hodgson
Contact: [email protected]
Success4All
Signée: Caroline Afolabi-Deleu
Contact: [email protected]
Sue Woolhouse MA RCA
Ouseburn Warehouse Workshops
[email protected]
Women Artists of the North East Library
Signee: Holly Argent, Project lead
Email: [email protected]
Added 7th July 2020:
Bonnie & the Bonnettes
Signees: Hattie Eason, Cameron Sharp and Rebecca Glendenning, Co-Founders of Bonnie and The Bonnettes.
Contact: [email protected]
Comrades of Children Overseas (COCO)
Signee: Lucy Kendall
Contact: [email protected]
The Culture Vulture
Signee: Rachel Horton
Contact: [email protected]
The Forge
Signee: Tony Harrington Executive Director
Contact: [email protected]
Higgler
Signee: Chelsea Clarke, Founder
Contact: [email protected]
NEPN (North East Photography Network)
Signee: Amanda Ritson
Contact: [email protected]
North East Emerging Museum Professionals Group
Signee: Hannah Mather
Contact: [email protected]
Northumberland Theatres
Signee: Wendy Scott
Contact: [email protected]
November Club
Signee: Cinzia Hardy, Artistic Director
Contact: [email protected]
One For All Productions
Signee: John MacMahon, Creative Director
Contact: [email protected]
The Six Twenty
Signee: Melanie Rashbrooke, Artistic Director
Contact: [email protected]
Theatre Sans Frontieres
Signee: Sarah Kemp
Contact: [email protected]
Thinking/Practice
Signee: Mark Robinson
Contact: [email protected]
Added 14th July 2020:
Dr. Sheree Mack
Creatrix
[email protected]
The Foundation of Light and Beacon of Light facility
Signee: Jamie Wright, Managing Director
Contact: [email protected]
Identity on Tyne
Signee: Project Coordinator
Contact: [email protected]
Northern Architectural History Society
Signee: Christopher Downs, Chair
Contact: [email protected]
Signee: Ali Pritchard, Artistic/Executive Director
Contact: Ali Pritchard, [email protected]
Ampersand Inventions
Signees: Jonpaul Kirvan FRSA / Peter Marchal, Directors
Contact: [email protected]
Anna Robinson
Sceneographer
Contact: [email protected]
ARC Stockton
Signee: Annabel Turpin
Contact: [email protected]
Arts & Heritage
Stephanie Allen, Executive Director
Contact: [email protected]
Assembly Rooms Theatre Durham
Signee: Kate Barton
Contact: [email protected]
balletLORENT
Signee: Liv Lorent
Contact: [email protected]
Blowin’ A Hooley Theatre
Contact: [email protected]
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Signee: Sarah Munro, Director
Contact: Caroline Murphy, [email protected]
Ben Dickenson
Contact: [email protected]
Executive Producer, City of Dreams / Associate Literary Producer Alphabetti
Beverley Prevatt Goldstein
Signee: Beverley Prevatt Goldstein
Contact: [email protected]
Brash
Signee: Bethan Kitchen, Artistic Director
Contact: [email protected]
Bridge+Tunnel Productions
Signee: Tina Gharavi, Creative Director
Contact: [email protected]
Butcher’s Dog Poetry Magazine
Dr. Jo Clement, Managing Editor
Camisado Club
Signee: Caroline Liversidge, Camisado Club
Contact: [email protected]
Centre for Life, Newcastle
Signee: Linda Conlon
Contact: Louise Richardson, [email protected]
Cobalt Studios
Contact: [email protected]
Company of Others
Signee: Nadia Iftkhar, Artistic Director & CEO
Contact: Nadia Iftkhar, [email protected]
Coracle Productions
Signee: Matt Jamie, Artistic Director Contact: [email protected]
Curious Arts
Signee: Phil Douglas, Director
Contact: Ellie Puckering, [email protected]
Curious Monkey
Signee: Amy Golding
Contact: [email protected]
Creative Seed
Contact: Sandy and Garner Harris, Founding Directors
D6 Culture in Transit
Clymene Christoforou, Director
Dance City
Signee: Phil Douglas
Contact: Phil Douglas, [email protected]
Degna Stone
Poet and editor
Disconsortia
Signee: Lisette Auton, Co-founding Member
Contact: [email protected]
Eliot Smith Dance (ESD)
Signee: Eliot Smith, Artistic Director
Contact: [email protected]
Elizabeth Kane
Artist
Contact: [email protected]
Ednie Wilson
Gateshead
Gateway Studio CIO
Signee: Martin Hylton, Artistic Director/CEO
Contact: Martin Hylton, [email protected]
GemArts
Signee: Vikas Kumar MBE, Director
Contact: Vikas Kumar, [email protected]
Gobscure
Signee: Sean Burn
Contact: [email protected]
Gosforth Civic Theatre
Contact: [email protected]
Harambee Pasadia CIC
Signee: Hannabiell Sanders
Contact: Hannabiell Sanders, [email protected]
Kitchen Zoo
Signee: Bob Nicholson
Contact: [email protected]
Ladies of Midnight Blue
Signee: Yilis Suriel
Contact: Yilis Suriel, [email protected]
The Letter Room
Signees: Meghan Doyle and Stan Hodgson, Co-Artistic Directors
Contact: [email protected]
Little Cog
Signee: Vici Wreford-Sinnott, Artistic Director
Contact: [email protected]
Live Theatre
Signee: Jim Beirne, Chief Executive
Contact: [email protected]
Luxi
Signee: Caroline Pearce
Contact: [email protected]
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA)
Signee: Laura Sillars, MIMA Director and Dean of MIMA School of Art & Design
Contact: [email protected]
Melody Sproates
Artist/Performer
Mortal Fools
Signee: Kiz Crosbie, Artistic Director/CEO
Contact: [email protected]
Mslexia
Debbie Taylor, Editorial Director
Contact: [email protected]
The NewBridge Project
Signee: Rebecca Huggan, Director
Contact: [email protected]
New Writing North
Claire Malcolm, Chief Executive
Contact: Claire Malcolm, [email protected]
Newcastles of the World
Signee: David Faulkner
Contact: [email protected]
Newcastle City Council Arts Team
Signee: Cllr Ged Bell (Cabinet Member for Culture)
Contact: Jim Mawdsley, Arts and Culture Senior Advisor, [email protected]
Northern Print
Signee: Anna Wilkinson, Director
Contact: [email protected]
Newcastle Theatre Royal
Signee: Philip Bernays, Chief Executive
Newcastle University
Signee: Professor Julie Sanders, Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Contact: [email protected]
North East Culture Partnership
Signee: Matthew Jaratt
Contact: [email protected]
Northern Roots
Signee: Adam Collerton, Director
Contact: [email protected]
Northern Stage
Signee: Kate Denby, Executive Director
Contact: Mark Calvert, [email protected]
OGRE
Contact: Steven Walker, Creative Director
Open Clasp
Signees: Joint Chief Executives Catrina McHugh MBE / Ellie Turner
Contacts: [email protected], [email protected]
Orbis
Signees: Jonpaul Kirvan FRSA, Paul Stone, Chris Yeats
Origin Moko Jumbies
Signee: Alan Vaughan
Contact: [email protected]
Prometheus Foundation CIC
Contact: Dot Owston
Sage Gateshead
Signee: Abigail Pogson, Director
Contact: Wendy Smith, [email protected]
Sangini
Signee: Padma Rao
Seven Stories
Signee: John Coburn
Contact: Amanda Beckham, [email protected]
Side By Side Arts CIC
Signee: Stuart Angus, Director
Contact: [email protected]
Skimstone Arts
Signee: Claire Webster-Saaramets, Director
Contact: Claire Webster-Saaramets, [email protected]
Slugtown
Signees: Max Lee and Matt Antoniak, Co-directors
Summer Streets Festival
Signee: Ross Millard
Contact: [email protected]
Streetwise Young People’s Project
Signee: Mandy Coppin (Taylor)
Sunderland Culture
Signee: Graeme Thompson
Contact: [email protected]
Sunderland Music Hub
Signee: Lizzie Nixon
Contact: [email protected]
Susan Ashley
AHRC Researcher
Contact: [email protected]
Tees Valley Arts
Signee: James Beighton, Executive Director
Contact: [email protected]
Hullabaloo Theatre
Signees: Miranda Thain, Chief Executive & Artistic Producer
Contact : [email protected]
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Signee: Iain Watson, Director
Contact: Bill Griffiths, [email protected]
Tyne and Wear Cultural Freelancers
Signee: Leila d’Aronville
Contact: Leila d’Aronville, [email protected]
Twisterella Festival
Signees: Andy Carr and Henry Carden
Contact: [email protected]
Unfolding Theatre
Signees: Michael Barrass, Alex Elliott, Garry Lydon, Annie Rigby and Luca Rutherford
Contact: [email protected]
VAMOS!
Signee: Nikolas Barrera
Contact: [email protected]
Voices of Virtue Gospel Choir
Signees: Mathapelo Imarhiagbe, Chinyere Igun, Glen Smiley
Waka Waka Africa North East
Signee: David Fualkner
Contact: [email protected]
We Make Culture CIC
Signee: Laura Brewis, Project Director
Contact: [email protected]
Workplace and Workplace Foundation
Signee: Miles Thurlow
Contact: [email protected]
Yvette Ja Hawkins
Visual Artist
Contact: [email protected]
Added 16th June 2020:
The Common Room
Signee: Liz Mayes
Contact: [email protected]
Cumberland Arms
Signee: Jo Hodson
Contact: Jo Hodson, [email protected]
DrumDin
Signee: Carol Alevroyianni
Contact: [email protected]
Jack Drum Arts CIC
Signee: Helen Ward, Managing Director
Contact: [email protected]
Middlesbrough Council Cultural buildings
Middlesbrough Town Hall, Middlesbrough Theatre, Middlesbrough Museums
Signee: Mieka Smiles, Executive Member for Culture, Middlesbrough Council.
Contact: [email protected]
NewcastleGateshead Initiative
Signee: Shelley Johnson
Contact: [email protected]
Northern Alchemy Brewery
Signee: Andrew AItchison
Contact: [email protected]
The Old Coal Yard
Signee: Carl Kennedy
Contact: [email protected]
On Board Arts street theatre company
Signee: Nik Alevroyiannis, Artistic Director
Contact: [email protected]
Paco Rivera, Musician
Contact: [email protected]
SALTo Arts Productions
Signee: Richard Broderick
Contact: [email protected]
Added 23rd June 2020
Artist Union England
Signee: Theresa Easton
Contact: [email protected]
Bensham Grove
Signee: Shirley Brown, Chair
Contact: Vikas Kumar, Vice Chair, [email protected]
Circus Central
Sarah Carrie, Operations Director
Contact: [email protected]
Citizen Songwriters CIC
Signee: Sam Slatcher and Alex Summerson, Directors
Contact: [email protected]
Converge at Northumbria
Signee: Ally Hunter Byron – Coordinator
Contact: [email protected]
The Culture Durham Partnership
Signed by Tony Harrington, chair
Contact – [email protected]
The Cultural Spring
Signee: Emma Horsman
[email protected]
Dingy Butterflies CIC
Signee: Ben Jones, Founder & Director
Contact: [email protected]
East Durham Creates
Signees: Jess Hunt & Malcolm Fallow
Contact: [email protected]
Empty Shop CIC
Signatories : Carlo Viglianisi and Nick Malyan
Contact: [email protected]
Explore Lifelong Learning
Signee: Dorothy Stainsby, Co-chair, Joseph Cowen Lifelong Learning Centre CIO
Contact: [email protected]
Gateshead Council
Signee: Councillor Angela Douglas, Cabinet Member for Culture, Sport and Leisure
Contact: [email protected]
The Invisible Labs
Signee: Bhavani Esapathi, Founding Director
Contact: [email protected]
Keep Our NHS Public North East (KONPNE)
Signee: Jude Letham
[email protected]
Katie Mitchell
Arts and Health Network, North East
Laura Fish
Writer and lecturer at Northumbria University
[email protected]
Louise Evan Wong
Individual
[email protected]
Luca Rutherford
writer + performer
[email protected]
Megan Brown
Dance Artist
[email protected]
Music Partnership North Newcastle
Signee: Georgina Biddle, Senior Specialist Music Service
Contact: [email protected]
Network Artists North East
Signee: Jo Liddle
Contact: [email protected]
Sue Ward
Researcher
Contact: [email protected]
Pippa Kyle
[email protected]
North East Labour History Society
Signee: David Connolly
Contact: [email protected]
LGBT and fed North East
Signee: Phil Hayden
Contact: [email protected]
Sanjee Ratnatunga
Ideas for Change Consulting
Contact: [email protected]
Sensory Spaces, Newcastle
[email protected]
Seventeen Nineteen
Signee: Lily Daniels, Participation and Engagement Officer
Contact: [email protected]
Show Racism the Red Card
Contact name: Justine King, Educational Coordinator
Email: [email protected]
The Poetry Book Society
Signee: Sophie O’Neill
Contact: [email protected]
Sunderland Culture
Signee: Helen Connify
[email protected]
Tin Arts
Signee: Martin Wilson, Executive Director
Contact: [email protected]
VARC
Signee: Helen Pailing
Contact: [email protected]
Well Newcastle Gateshead
Signee: Mark Mulqueen, Programme Director
Contact: [email protected]
Added 30th June 2020:
Event International
Signee: Frank Wilson
Contact: [email protected]
Greenfield Arts
Signee: Katy Milne
Contact: [email protected]
Holly Argent
Artist/ Researcher
[email protected]
Kusoma African Book Club
Signee: Pauline Hughes (Plummer)
Contact: [email protected]
North East of England African Community Association
Signee: Abdul-Aziz Kouamé
Contact: [email protected]
Northern Heartlands
Signee: Jill Cole
Contact: [email protected]
Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
Signee: Nick Hodgson
Contact: [email protected]
Success4All
Signée: Caroline Afolabi-Deleu
Contact: [email protected]
Sue Woolhouse MA RCA
Ouseburn Warehouse Workshops
[email protected]
Women Artists of the North East Library
Signee: Holly Argent, Project lead
Email: [email protected]
Added 7th July 2020:
Bonnie & the Bonnettes
Signees: Hattie Eason, Cameron Sharp and Rebecca Glendenning, Co-Founders of Bonnie and The Bonnettes.
Contact: [email protected]
Comrades of Children Overseas (COCO)
Signee: Lucy Kendall
Contact: [email protected]
The Culture Vulture
Signee: Rachel Horton
Contact: [email protected]
The Forge
Signee: Tony Harrington Executive Director
Contact: [email protected]
Higgler
Signee: Chelsea Clarke, Founder
Contact: [email protected]
NEPN (North East Photography Network)
Signee: Amanda Ritson
Contact: [email protected]
North East Emerging Museum Professionals Group
Signee: Hannah Mather
Contact: [email protected]
Northumberland Theatres
Signee: Wendy Scott
Contact: [email protected]
November Club
Signee: Cinzia Hardy, Artistic Director
Contact: [email protected]
One For All Productions
Signee: John MacMahon, Creative Director
Contact: [email protected]
The Six Twenty
Signee: Melanie Rashbrooke, Artistic Director
Contact: [email protected]
Theatre Sans Frontieres
Signee: Sarah Kemp
Contact: [email protected]
Thinking/Practice
Signee: Mark Robinson
Contact: [email protected]
Added 14th July 2020:
Dr. Sheree Mack
Creatrix
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The Foundation of Light and Beacon of Light facility
Signee: Jamie Wright, Managing Director
Contact: [email protected]
Identity on Tyne
Signee: Project Coordinator
Contact: [email protected]
Northern Architectural History Society
Signee: Christopher Downs, Chair
Contact: [email protected]